The Life And Works Of Arcimboldo

Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226426882
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcimboldo written by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man’s chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk that doubles as a neck. All sorts of natural phenomena come together on canvas and panel to assemble the strange heads and faces that constitute one of Renaissance art’s most striking oeuvres. The first major study in a generation of the artist behind these remarkable paintings, Arcimboldo tells the singular story of their creation. Drawing on his thirty-five-year engagement with the artist, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann begins with an overview of Arcimboldo’s life and work, exploring the artist’s early years in sixteenth-century Lombardy, his grounding in Leonardesque traditions, and his tenure as a Habsburg court portraitist in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo then trains its focus on the celebrated composite heads, approaching them as visual jokes with serious underpinnings—images that poetically display pictorial wit while conveying an allegorical message. In addition to probing the humanistic, literary, and philosophical dimensions of these pieces, Kaufmann explains that they embody their creator’s continuous engagement with nature painting and natural history. He reveals, in fact, that Arcimboldo painted many more nature studies than scholars have realized—a finding that significantly deepens current interpretations of the composite heads. Demonstrating the previously overlooked importance of these works to natural history and still-life painting, Arcimboldo finally restores the artist’s fantastic visual jokes to their rightful place in the history of both science and art.

Author : Diana Craig
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780765198914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Works of Arcimboldo written by Diana Craig and published by Smithmark Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudia Strand
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791320847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hello, Fruit Face! written by Claudia Strand and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the fanciful paintings of sixteenth-century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who composed faces with fruits, books, fish, vegetables, and other items.

Author : Werner Kriegeskorte
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
ISBN 13 : 9783822896389
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593 written by Werner Kriegeskorte and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 1993 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details Arcimboldo's life, work, pictures and drawings. Also the work he did as a scientist.

Author : Liana De Girolami Cheney
Publisher : Parkstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781602522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcimboldo written by Liana De Girolami Cheney and published by Parkstone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought canvases captured the imagination of his generation. In this fascinating book, Liana De Girolami Cheney takes a closer look at the critical history of Arcimboldo's work, from his initial popularity and the tragic obscurity that followed his death, to the ventual triumphant revival of his work and vision by Surrealist admirers of the 1920s.

Author : Federico Zeri
Publisher : NDE Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcimboldo written by Federico Zeri and published by NDE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nogle værker af den italienske renæssancekunstner Guiseppe Arcimboldo

Author : Liana De Girolami Cheney
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 178310161X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arcimboldo and artworks written by Liana De Girolami Cheney and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought canvases captured the imagination of his generation. In this fascinating book, Liana De Girolami Cheney takes a closer look at the critical history of Arcimboldo’s work, from his initial popularity and the tragic obscurity that followed his death, to the ventual triumphant revival of his work and vision by Surrealist admirers of the 1920s.

Author : Gillian Riley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780231970
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food in Art written by Gillian Riley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II as a heap of fruits and vegetables to artists depicting lavish banquets for wealthy patrons, food and art are remarkably intertwined. In this richly illustrated book, Gillian Riley provides fresh insight into how the relationship between humans and food has been portrayed in art from ancient times to the Renaissance. Exploring a myriad of images including hunting scenes depicted in Egyptian Books of Hours and fruit in Roman wall paintings and mosaics, Riley argues that works of art present us with historical information about the preparation and preservation of food that written sources do not—for example, how meat, fish, cheese, and vegetables were dried, salted, and smoked, or how honey was used to conserve fruit. She also examines what these works reveal to us about how animals and plants were raised, cultivated, hunted, harvested, and traded throughout history. Looking at the many connections between food, myth, and religion, she surveys an array of artworks to answer questions such as whether the Golden Apples of the Hesperides were in fact apples or instead quinces or oranges. She also tries to understand whether our perception of fruit in Christian art is skewed by their symbolic meaning. With 170 color images of fine art, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and funerary monuments, Food in Art is an aesthetically pleasing and highly readable book for art buffs and foodies alike.

Author : Twinkl Originals
Publisher : Twinkl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carrot Club written by Twinkl Originals and published by Twinkl. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supermarket veggies feel left out when they discover a secret club that's for carrots only. Head down to the vegetable aisle, where a smart-thinking parsnip might just be the key to getting all the veggies into the club and teaching the carrots an important lesson. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466804823
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2666 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.